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The Warts-and-All
Clinton Constituency

Updated Feb. 25, 1998 12:31 a.m. ET

In his Feb. 13 editorial-page commentary "Making Sense of the Polls ," James Q. Wilson joins a host of so-called political experts, columnists and politicians who are nearly apoplectic over President Clinton's extraordinarily high job approval ratings. They cannot seem to understand or accept that nearly three-fourths of Americans approve of Mr. Clinton's job performance in spite of his alleged sexual indiscretions.

If, as Mr. Wilson concludes, the explanation is simply that Americans are political partisans (and...